Today’s Opera build introduced a well known feature, which can already be found on: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and probably few others, not so well known web browsers. This new feature allows Opera users to control tabs behavior when closing them. If you will open the following settings window: Preferences > Advanced > Tabs
It’s easy to notice the following options to choose from:

Activate the last active (default)
Activate the tab to the right
Active the first tab opened from closing tab

Please note, this is NOT a final release, make sure you check the changelog first:

Known Issues

Plug-ins crash Opera on UNIX/Linux.

Some plugins on Mac don’t work at all.

Format selector when saving pages is broken.

Opera will not fetch more than 50 new IMAP messages in one go – you’ll need to reset the account to get more.

Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected).

Advanced tab activation currently does not work on Mac or UNIX/Linux.

Changelog

Added a new preference in Preferences > Advanced > Tabs which controls which tab to activate when closing a tab.

Fixed crash when composing mail with empty signature

Fixed crash when emptying history and VPS was disabled
css3 :target now works on targets identified using name attribute

New spatnav highlighting, similar to the one used in Opera Mini 4 and the Wii browser
iframes with content editable are now in the tabbing order (Another gmail 2 fix)

Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.